Book review: World War Two on trial and the making of modern Asia

It was three days after the emperor's announcement that Japan had finally surrendered. In the confusion of mid-August 1945 an intrepid schoolboy walked from his internment camp on the edge of Shanghai back into the wrecked city. Much later J.G. Ballard would win worldwide fame as a sci-fi novelist but memories of what…

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